Safety suspension or chatelaine pin.



G.A.HOLBRODK.

SAFETY SUSPENSION 0R GHATBLAINE PIN. APPLICATION FILED 00T.2,l90&

1',044, 7, a Patented Nov. 19, 1912.

WITNESSES: I

ATTORNEYS OGRAPH (20., WASHINGTON D c uniTnn STATES PATENT curios.

CLEMENT A. HOLIBROOK, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO SLOAN &

COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SAFETY SUSPENSION 0R CHATELAINE PIN.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, CLEMENT A. HOL- mzoox, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SafetySuspension or Chatelaine Pins; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and tocharacters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

The present invention has reference, generally, to a novel constructionof safety suspension or chatelaine-pin for retaining a watch or otherarticles in a suspended position upon part of a garment, such as a ladysdress, belt, or the like; and, the invention has for its principalobject a simple and cheaply constructed suspension or chatelaine-pinfrom which a watch or other article may be suspended and securely heldin its suspended position without danger of accidental displacement ortheft.

This invention has for another object to provide a novel and simplyconstructed safety-suspension device, known in the art'as achatelaine-pin, comprising a main ornamental body having a twisted anddownwardly extending watch-bow receiving element forming a part of saidbody, and parts of said body being the respective end-portions of thesaid receiving element, the said main body, being provided upon the backnear one end with a hinged pin and near the other end with a holdingcatch with which the pointed end-portion of the pin can be brought inseparable holding engagement, all arranged so that when the pin isdetached from the holding catch, a watch-bow can be inserted over theend of the main body of the device and made to enter the receivingelement, whereby upon securing the free or pointed end-portion of thepin in the holding catch, the watch is suspended from the suspensiondevice and can not be removed unless the pin is detached fromthe holdingor retaining catch.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 2, 1908.

Patented Nov. 19, 1912. Serial No. 455,921.

A further object of this invention is to provide a safety suspension orchatelaine-pin which, while it holds a watch or other article securelyagainst accidental displacement or theft, does not require the operationof any independent or complicated locking or retaining means, but one inwhich the mere act of pinning the suspension or chatelainepin with thewatch or other article suspendedtherefrom to the dress or garment causesthe watch or other article to be securely locked or retained in itssuspended relation to the said suspension or chatelainepin, andimpossible of removal therefrom except by removing the said suspensionor chatelaine-pin from the garment.

A still further object of the present invention is to provide aconstruction of safety suspension or chatelaine-pin, which lends itselfreadily to, a great variety of ornamental configurations or designs,while still retaining its safety locking features.

The invention therefore consists in the novel construction of safetysuspension or chatelaine-pin hereinafter fully described; and,furthermore, this invention consists in the novel arrangements andcombinations of the various parts, as well as in the details of theconstruction thereof, all of which will be more particularly set forthin the follow' ing specification and then finally embodied in theclauses of the claim which are appended to and form an essential part ofthis specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a face-view of the safety-suspension or chatelaine-pinembodying the principles of the present invention, the same beingillustrated pinned to the cloth of a garment with a watch suspendedtherefrom inits locked or secured relation thereto. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the same, removed from the garment. Fig. 3 is a top View ofthe same, illustrating the manner in which the said safety suspension orchatelaine-pin is pinned to the garment, the cloth of the garment beingshown in section and the watch being removed in this view, to bettershow the construction of said safety-suspension or chatelaine-pin. Fig.4

is a back view of the said safety-suspension or chatelaine-pin. Fig. 5is a vertical crosssection of the same taken on' line 5-5 in said Fig.4-, looking in the direction of the arrow w.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the said abovedescribed views, indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the said drawings, the reference-character 1 indicatesthe complete safety suspension or chatelaine-pin embody ing theprinciples of my present invention, the same comprising, essentially, amain body-portion or bar 2; the free ends 3 of said main body portion orbar 2 may be embellished with any desirable design or configuration.Forming a part of said main body-portion or bar 2, and preferablycentrally disposed between the ends 3 of the same is a suitably twistedand downwardly extending watch bow receiving element formed by portions4 which are bent or turned so as to form a loop-portion 5 which ispreferably at right angles, or approximately, to the longitudinal lineof the main body-portion or bar 2, thus forming a receiving element orloop from which a watch 6, or other article, may be suspended byslipping the bow 7 of said watch over one of the ends of said main-bodyportion or bar 2 and sliding the same forward until it slips through theopening 8 between the downwardly extending portions 4 and finally restssuspended upon the loop-portion 5. Secured to one end 3 of said mainbody-portion or bar 2, and on the back thereof, by means of solder, orany other suitable fastening means, are a pair of perforated ears 9.Pivotally secured between the said perforated ears 9, by means of arivet 9 is the joint-end 10 of a pin-shank 11, the free-end 12 of whichis sharpened or pointed in the usual manner. In like manner, there issecured to the opposite end 3 of said main body-portion or bar 2, on theback thereof, by means of solder or any other suitable fastening means,a holding or retaining catch 13 of the usual hookshaped constructionwith which the pointed end-portion of the pin 11 can be brought intoseparable holding engagement. To arrange the watch-bow in its suspendedrelation within the watch-bow receiving element, the pointed end-portionof the pin 11 is disengaged from said holding or retaining catch 13, andthe watch-bow is passed over the free end-portion of the main body orbar 2, and slides forward upon said body or bar until it enters thereceiving element and is suspended therein from the loop-portion 5.

After the watch or other article has been slipped into the loop-portion5, as above described, the pin-shank 11 is passed through the cloth 14of the garment to which the said suspension or chatelaine-pin is to beattached, and the pointed end-portion of the pin-shank 11 is caughtbeneath and secured by the holding or retaining catch 13 in the usualmanner. It will then be readily understood, that the Watch or otherarticle is then securely locked or held in its relation to the saidsafety suspension or chatelaine pin against any accidental dis placementor theft; and, that the same cannot be removed except by releasing thepinshank 11 from its hold-ing engagement with the catch 13, so that theWatch or other article may he slipped over the end 3 of the saidmain-body-portion or bar 2.

It will thus be clearly evident that the present invention provides avery simple but efl'ective construction of suspension or chatelaine-pinsfor securely suspending a watch or other article from a garment or thelike, the end-members of the device being both curved, so that the innerend-portion of the one end member extends inwardly and the innerend-portion of the other end-member extends outwardly and that the lowerportion of the bow-receiving element is angularly disposed with relationto the said curved end-members. By means of this detailed arrangement ofthese parts, it is necessary, in placing the watch in'its suspendedrelation, to bring the bow of the watch in variously twisted relationswith the general plane of the face of the suspension device, so thateven when the pin' becomes detached, by accident, or otherwise, from thepin-receiving catch, it is with difficulty that the watch-bow can beremoved; and, hence, any danger of losing the watch by accident or theftis minimized.

I claim A safety suspension device for suspending watches or otherarticles from a garment comprising a main body consisting of a pair ofend-members, and an intermediately disposed and downwardly extendingbow-receiving element, said receiving element forming a part of saidbody and lying in a plane at right angles to the plane of said body, andsaid bow-receiving element extending for some distance beneath therespective end-portions of said main body, and said end members beingboth curved, so that the inner end-portion of one end-member extendsinwardly, and the inner end-portion of the other end-member extendsoutwardly, and that the lower portion of said bow-receiving elementconnecting the same is angularly disposed with relation to said curvedend-members, all arranged so that the bow of the article may be inserteddirectly over one end of said body and moved upon a portion of said bodydirectly within said receiving element, a pin pivotally connected to oneend of the back of the said body, and In testimony, that I claim theinvention a pin-receiving retaining catch at the other set forth above Ihave hereunto set my end of the back of said body, said pin when handthis nineteenth day of September 1908.

in its holding engagement with said catch CLEMENT A. HOLBROOK. servingas a retaining means to prevent the Witnesses:

Withdrawal of the bow of the suspended. HENRY C. TILDEN,

article from the suspension device. ALFRED LINTON.

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